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Author: John W. Wright Publisher: ISBN: 9780810398870 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 648
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Written from a patient's viewpoint and drawing valuable input from physicians and other medical personnel, The Best Hospitals in America describes the history of 387 institutions, their locations, reputations, highly rated services and well-known specialists. Provides such details as admissions policy, room charges and contact information.
Author: John W. Wright Publisher: Gale Cengage ISBN: 9780810398740 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 642
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Written from a patient's view and drawing valuable input from physicians and other medical personnel, The Best Hospitals in America describes the history of 387 institutions, their locations, reputations, highly rated services and well-known specialists. Provides such details as admissions policies, room charges and contact information.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Hospitals Languages : en Pages :
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Features a tool for searching the United States hospital rankings compiled by U.S. News Online. Allows users to search for top hospitals by specialty and to perform nationwide or regional searches. Provides an alphabetical list of hospitals included and a list of the highest ranking hospitals. Contains an explanation of how the rankings were determined and a glossary of terms. Links to the home page of U.S. News Online.
Author: The Editors of U.S. News & World Report Publisher: Wiley ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 534
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Find the hospital that's best for you—wherever you are, whatever your needs Choosing the best hospital just got a lot easier. This comprehensive guide, compiled by the editors of U.S. News & World Report, ranks all of the nation's major hospitals in 16 different medical specialties. Expanding on U.S. News' authoritative "Best Hospitals" annual guide, America's Best Hospitals is based on in-depth research developed exclusively for U.S. News by the National Opinion Research Center, a social-science research affiliate of the University of Chicago. The hospital rankings combine statistics about each hospital with its reputation among top physicians to yield an overall score for each facility. America's Best Hospitals— Ranks hospitals nationally in 16 specialty areas: AIDS Ophthalmology Cancer Orthopedics Cardiology Otolaryngology Endocrinology Pediatrics Gastroenterology Psychiatry Geriatrics Rehabilitation Gynecology Rheumatology Neurology Urology Ranks hospitals state by state and in 10 key metropolitan areas, in 12 specialties Includes vital statistics about patient care—like mortality rates, the ratio of nurses to beds, discharge planning, the availability of medical technology, and other key data Provides practical guidance for getting admitted to the top hospitals, arranging for payment, and other pressing issues confronting anyone facing a trip to the hospital Whether you're faced with an illness, need to schedule elective surgery, or simply want peace of mind should an emergency strike, America's Best Hospitals has everything you need to make a safe, informed decision regarding healthcare facilities. U.S. News & World Report has a circulation of almost 2.3 million, and an estimated readership of 11 million. It is the only newsweekly with "News You Can Use."
Author: U. S. News U.S. News and World Report Publisher: U.S. News & World Report ISBN: 9781931469975 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Hospitals book is the definitive guide to quality health care in the United States, featuring U.S. News' exclusive rankings and ratings of adult and children's hospitals. This attractively illustrated guidebook also features in-depth looks at emerging trends of interest to both consumers and health-care professionals.
Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698407180 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 434
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A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Author: Samuel Shem Publisher: Berkley ISBN: 1984805363 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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The sequel to the highly acclaimed The House of God. Years later, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents.
Author: Sheri Fink Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307718972 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 602
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Author: Marty Makary Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635574129 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 305
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New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.
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